Jihad at Trolley Square

It was a cold Monday night in Salt Lake City, Utah. Sulejman Talovic parked in the west parking lot at the Trolley Square mall, but he wasn't there for Valentines sales.

Sulejman Talovic came with a pump-action 12-gauge shotgun, a bandolier around his waist, and a backpack loaded with extra ammunition and a .38-caliber handgun. Talovic met his first two victims as he left the parking lot, firing off two rounds as they fell helplessly to the ground.

"Die, motherf-----," Talovic yelled at them, according to witnesses. ¹

He then moved deliberately through the ground floor, firing round after round at helpless others. Witnesses inside said Talovic sometimes said nothing, and other times would either say "Die, motherf-----," or order his victims not to look him in the face. ²

Eventually, five people were slaughtered and four were seriously wounded. The damage would have been much worse if it wasn't for an off-duty police officer and an amazingly fast response by police. The first officers arrived only 3 minutes after the first call, and a SWAT team finally killed Talovic only 3 minutes after that.³

According to virtually all media outlets, no motive has been determined, and few have even dared to speculate.

The glaring omission is this: Sulejman Talovic is a Muslim refugee from Bosnia. ⁴In fact, "Sulejman" is a Muslim name, taken from the Muslim conqueror of the Balkans, Suleiman the Magnificent. ⁵

"Most Bosnian refugees abhor violence," Elvis Hadzialijagic, a Bosnian restaurant owner in Salt Lake said. "We had enough of that." ¹

Apparently not this one. Unfortunately, Talovic was most likely too young at the time to have learned the lessons of his homeland, and appreciate how America saved him from it all.

It is also worth noting the Talovic spent a majority of his shooting spree inside a card shop, where he fired at every single person shopping for Valentines gifts. Many Muslims believe that Valentines day is immoral. ³